I am a crier. I cry ALL the time. If someone is even somewhat mean to me I will immediately tear up. I also cry if I get angry or frustrated.

During a JOB INTERVIEW.

It still is hilariously bad PR for them. When the recession hit Sweden, a lot of non-practicing or Christmas/Easter Christians formally left the Church of Sweden. Why? Because as a church (or synagogue or mosque) member you pay a tithe collected from your taxes of 1%.

I grew up in this religion. I left it 15 years ago. To this day, I still have missionaries show up at my door asking why I’m still choosing to be inactive.

THEY ARE OBJECTIVELY TERRIBLE MOVIES.

C: I’m a do nothing bitch who can’t stand Dunham democrat

It’s the waxy coating: they’re little cheesy creatures that are blue, shriveled and slug-like. They don’t get cute for a few months at least and even then...

They can usually go back to work right away with minor discomfort. I’ve known 5 men who have had them done, they all heard horror stories about pain, reversals but they’ve all been fine. Maybe they are the exception cause 90% of comments directed at me are about spontaneous reversals.

My in-laws, already struggling with these new rules, are terrified that the church will eventually require it to go the other way around. My FIL said that would be the unequivocal line for him—he refuses to disavow his own son. But the language is so there for the rule to go the other way.

Mr. Inq is the same. He’s done with the LDS church he was raised in, has been for over a decade, yet doesn’t dare make the formal request to be removed from membership rolls because the church will tell his family of the permanent decision and people will lose their shit. So we get visits from missionaries, the relief…

When I was 8, I “chose” to be baptized a member of the LDS church. I chose, despite strong evidence that I had no idea what I was doing, because the church teaches that through baptism, families are forever. Baptism is Step 1 of making sure you get to see your mom, dad, sisters, brothers, etc. in heaven someday. It…

This is my theory exactly so I think you’re right!

yep, ex-mormon attendee here, and it always made me uncomfortable when during “testimony”, little kids would go up to give their testimony, which a parent whispered in their ear.:“I know the Church to be true and that Joseph Smith is a true prophet of God”. Well, no, tiny 8 year old, you don’t know jack shit, you are…

What I’ve never been able to understand is that at 8, I was mature enough to “choose” the Mormon church, but at 12, I wasn’t mature enough to leave it.

I have been a weeping mess since last night over this. When I initially heard, I thought, “Good. This is so openly hateful and abusive that no one could defend this.” And... Then they did. People are witnessing the pain of those who have been deemed less-than and they don’t care. People are dying because they love…

I ‘choose’ to be baptized because I was told I had to and was promised a unicorn-themed afterparty.

Truth. I live in SLC. It appears that we will have an openly gay mayor once all of the absentee votes are tallied and then you have this... I live on the east side in a “liberal” part of town and am constantly amazed at the diversity, but if I head south to Utah county it becomes intensely LDS.

My step dad was excommunicated for sexually abusing me. The idea that my lesbian daughter could get the same punishment enrages me.

I wonder how Jesus would feel about essentially damning children to Hell because of their parents’ sins. That’s essentially what this is, right? They’re using children as collateral in order to keep their LGBTQ+ members in line? That’s fucked up.

SLC has a massive LGBTQ population that is very active in politics. I truly think SLC is a great city with lots of good people, but Utah is weird man.